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I'm starting to think this is EDs attempt to promote Ralfi's Su 25: Hero to Zero video series, given the Su-25 and P-51 are the only aircraft available. On a slightly more serious note this is concerning, because (most) software companies have a grace period for click licensing that allow use without server contact for some period of time, and it would appear ED does not. This is by no means certain, but it's certainly what I see based on the errors. One DDoS, one bad server day, and all the people who bought licenses are out of luck. Like I said, Hawk flashbacks.

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nullED has a bad server day and suddenly the game is unplayable? I'm having Hawk flashbacks...

You must be very young.

An nginx 502 can be a few things, but resource scarcity seems the most likely, whether that is just a bunch of people jumping on Sinai or some twits making life difficult for them.

Had my fingers on an RF-4C today. That will hold me for a little while.

TGP, GBU-24? Looking at a late-80s, maybe 90s? I'm no expert on things that hang off wings, but HB needs to start talking and take my money. And for the competition guys, I bought the F-15E the day after early access started. Delayed by travel; didn't want to go through that in an airport and all, otherwise it would have been first day. There's no competition, just more toys in the hanger. Even if they are two seat. Now if we can only talk HB into giving me a cockpit that wasn't used as a frigate bird rookery for three years, then power washed. The smell lingers.

What I really want right now is cockpit layout. I'm rebuilding a couple panels on the simpit and want to make sure I have the F-4 covered. Don't need the jet yet, and we can negotiate bindings after release, just need to make sure the right switches are there to set armaments... Otherwise I've got more than enough to do flying other aircraft poorly.

What's amazing about it? People have made stuff up as they go along since people were invented. If HB or ED says anything at all they get piled on, if they say nothing people invent it and pile on them anyway. Silence is the path of least resistance, so they keep emcon in self defense. It's a shame, but it's the way things are now. Personally I'd love to hear "had to refactor piddle packs for the WSO, and that will take a few months", but then the InternetExperts appear out of nowhere...

Yeah...combined arms has always been a huge mystery for me, too. Bought it about forty years ago back when DCS ran on the Apple ][+, and never really figured out how to use it. Not the only think I haven't figured out, though. I'll be dead about twenty years before I get good at all the things I have, assuming nobody comes out with anything new.

Well, it's not quite that simple. The more smoky one or the less smoky one? Does the other guy see your chemtrail from a hundred miles or only ten?

This is how I set them up. ~20,000 (below the contrails), not east-west so you don't end up flying into the sun, faster then they let the tanker go, and immortal because 'return precontact' has been clinically shown to cause wing damage on air force tankers. That's about it. Add an F-something and tank away! Tanker.miz

Ensure it starts out at waypoint 0 with the tanker role. At waypoint 0 tell it to 'orbit', racetrack, set alt and speed, which it will (mostly) ignore Make sure you change TACAN to something better than 1 and assign it to the tanker unit Give me a bit and I'll post a short miz for a tanker. There's always at least one in pretty much any mission I do so I can practice my PIO whenever I fly. I am pretty much a master of PIO now. If they gave out Nobel Prizes for PIO I'd win. Twice.

Well, darn! Is this why I couldn't get those F135-P400s to fit? I figured a little sheet metal work, a couple hose clamps, and I get a 1.7:1 thrust ratio at max TO weight. Kinda like the original Falcon before they figured out the timing problems on a fast CPU ("fast" being defined as an MC68000 at 7.8MHz rather than the 6 MHz the game was designed for. Dead stop on the runway to 72,000 feet in less than five seconds). Add mixed ammo to the gun (alternating AIM-120D and AIM-9X) and I can fire 6,000 missiles per minute! That would show that stinking MiG-21 set to rookie skill that's been kicking my butt! Heck, bet I could beat Growling Sidewinder at the merge. Ok, maybe not Growling Sidewinder...

You don't need a bridle catcher to use bridles. Last time I checked the French chuck 'em into the sea, which is exactly what the US did if there was no catcher on the front. Far as I'm concerned once the carrier is aft it really doesn't matter if it's the CVN-65 or CV-6, nor do I care if I used a launch bar or a bridle to have enough airspeed to fly once the deck runs out. It would be nice to have everything modeled but I won't live that long and from a cash flow perspective it's not really viable, so give me a Naval F-4 variant, tell me I have to use the 'hookup' command to simulate my simulated aircraft being attached to the simulated catapult on the simulated deck by the simulated crew, and send me on my simulated way! Yeah, I know, immersion. Immersion is good, but I'm not inclined to wait for the tens of thousands of person-hours needed to be immersed. Carrier launches are a pretty small part of the mission, and if there's a wire strung across the deck landing is landing. I'm not going to hang out in the EOS and care if there's one RPCP or two. Or even none. They tend not to model such things, anyway.

I got to sit in one for a few seconds when I was 15, so about three weeks after the Wright Flyer took to the air. Richards-Gabauer AFB south of Kansas City. About all I remember (it's been a long time since Kitty Hawk) is the throttles were on the wrong side and I couldn't see over the brow, which is a shame because years later I worked with a 'Vark pilot who transitioned to BONEs once those were retired. I've got a picture of me sitting in a P-47, but that's a different forum. My dad was bomber crew in that war, and the F-15E always fascinated him just for the sheer amount of iron it could carry at mach speeds.

"Years' don't always mean calendar years. The year starts when the module is released.

Despite your current unit's best efforts I have some really nice pictures of them flying over my house. Very annoying, because that's my airspace and they're only allowed to use it if I get some advance notice to get the camera ready! Do find it interesting when an F-16 goes over with one 120B and one 120C, blue stripes, on the wings. Probably the best picture I've gotten was a CH-47 with a couple guys sitting on the ramp with their feet dangling over nothing. Then there was the Blackhawk that circled around, but it was a crummy day and the pictures weren't all that great. Still, nice to see all of them out there flying around.

Of course I've fiddled with the default.lua. I do it on every other plane, and do pretty good with the F-18. This one is different. Need a two position switch for TGP, but DCS only provides a toggle, so... {down = iCommandPlaneAHCPTGPOnOff, name = _('TGP switch ON/OFF'), category = _('Armament HUD Control Panel')}, {down = iCommandPlaneAHCPTGPOn, name = _('TGP switch ON'), category = _('Armament HUD Control Panel')}, {down = iCommandPlaneAHCPTGPOff, name = _('TGP switch OFF'), category = _('Armament HUD Control Panel')}, ON shows up in the list, but off does not. Anyone have any ideas?

This is pure genius. How do you know the values? Action and device ID in particular, I'm assuming the name comes from tooltips?

This. Run->joy.cpl, change the MFDs to something > 2. I was going to use 3,4,and 5, but got them to 4, 4, and 6 with the LEDs where they belong before it all blew up. Now they don't even show up in Target (which I only use to turn the throttle LEDs off) and as regular controllers in the control panel. Probably a driver thing, but despite ED's best efforts I can use them now. I seem to recall the pathetic control options in the A10 as the reason I've never flown it. Might need some serious help from LeCuvier to get this dialed in. Waiting for ED to help with controls is a waste of time. Their inability to add even a single binding is breathtaking.

Well...neither have I. It has taken quite a bit for seconds, if that, when slow enough that the authority isn't there, or the crosswind is nasty, or I didn't quite get as lined up as I should. It's pretty rare to have NWS on for any part of a takeoff roll. When I think my landings are pretty good I start dialing in crosswind, in some cases a lot of it, because that's where landing gets entertaining and the first few seconds of takeoff are most difficult.

What's a little sad about this whole topic is nobody bothers to point out the artists who did that weathering are geniuses. Like it, don't like it, the work is amazing. Dymo tape and scratches and pure wear and dirt and grime...incredible. Whoever they are deserve accolades for the obvious care and pride they have in their work. It's unfortunate all that effort has become such a point of contention. Almost makes me wonder if the 'factory new' option on the A-10C-II wasn't somehow a result of this debate. We now return you to your regularly scheduled subjective discourse. <edit> While plotting out some changes to the simpit I opened Chuck's Guide to get switch names right, and I really paid attention to the images. When I was in the Navy many, many years ago I lived in front of control panels, and I have to admit they weren't in better shape than the panels I see in that aircraft. White on black engraved labels (ours were grey, mostly), the illuminated annunciators, bezels on steam gauges, condition of paint on the panels, places where countless people have left fingerprints here and there, wear on the switch handles. Yeah. Been a 'minute', as Tom would say, but it's all very familiar. Doesn't change my opinion, just reminds me the SMEs are probably right and any errors are incremental, not orders of magnitude. Not really important, just an observation. </edit>

Full boot isn't necessarily a bad thing. If there's no significant crosswind NWS is off before the brakes; like everything else you need to be ahead of the aircraft, though. Rudder before you need it, off before you don't, otherwise you spend a lot of time swerving around the runway. There are days when I swear the engine is causing precession, though... This, like pretty much everything else, is a matter of practice. The good news is DCS doesn't count the number of aircraft you prang practising and kick you out of their program. I've scraped more ventral fins than I can count. The crew chief rolls his eyes and replaces them without a complaint.

I've been learning about departure plates and routes and all that. For all its faults the internet is the sum total of human learning; if there's something you can't figure out it's not for lack of opportunity! Heck, I take classes from MIT just because I can and it's pretty cool (MITx/OpenCourseware). This isn't a problem that can't be solved, it's just an unexpected prerequisite! I've already decided to work on departures this afternoon rather than getting shot in the face by Private York on that Zu-23 while I practice rocket attacks.